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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 8654952" data-attributes="member: 27897">One of the issues seems to be that there are only so many logical tonal progressions that are appealing to the Western listener. It's basically math. There are going to be repetitions, even in a vacuum, which is why part of the process is to prove exposure to the allegedly infringed-upon work.Another Experience I've Had:Back in the early '00s I wrote a piece on motorcycle road safety, for the riding group of which I was a founding member. I took a great deal of time with it and had distilled almost 20 years of what I had learned in my riding experience (both alone and leading group rides), racing schools (8), and ART (advanced rider training; 2) classes. I took no compensation for it because I was trying to help the community, especially new riders. Within a month or two I found it on two other riding groups' websites. That wouldn't have bothered me, given the reason for its creation, but there was zero attribution and I had not received a request for it to be used by anyone. In fact the reason why I found out about it being used by one of these sites, was because someone who was a member of both groups thought that I had taken it from one of those other sites, as they seemed to be claiming it as their own. A request and attribution, and I'd have been fine with it. Ultimately my piece was taken down by them and replaced with pieces that might as well have been spat out by an online thesaurus app.</blockquote>

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